Platform Engineering Manager — Scale Health Tech Infra

Nourish; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Nourish is seeking an hands-on Engineering Manager to lead Platform Engineering, responsible for scalable, reliable infrastructure and faster developer velocity. You will own architecture, drive LLM/RAG production-grade systems, and partner with cross-functional teams in a dynamic, growth-focused environment.

We value technical breadth and strong leadership—you’ll mentor a team of engineers, shape the roadmap, and ensure security/compliance in a fast-paced healthcare-adjacent platform.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with modern full-stack technologies.
• 2+ years of hands-on engineering management experience.
• Experience hiring engineers and managing performance.
• Remain technical enough to pair program when needed.
• Proficiency with TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL and AWS ECS.
• Shipping and owning production systems in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of 4-5 engineers with strong technical ownership.
• Coach engineers through regular feedback, career development, calibration, and performance management.
• Scale the team through recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding.
• Stay hands-on through architecture, pair programming, coding, code reviews, and on-call.
• Set the vision and roadmap for the team by collaborating with engineering leads, security, IT, and cross-functional partners.
• Drive decisions around system design, code quality, observability, reliability, and scalability.
• Establish sprint planning, OKR planning and reporting, quarterly planning, and retrospectives.
• Operate with urgency in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
• Set technical direction for systems that support business-critical work across the engineering org.
• Report on platform health with uptime, incident response time, infrastructure cost, and time-to-production KPIs.
• Partner with IT and legal teams to maintain security and compliance controls.
• Build reliable, auditable systems that scale with growth and regulatory complexity.

Skills

Engineering management

TypeScript

Node.js

PostgreSQL

AWS ECS

Full-stack development

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Nourish is seeking an hands-on Engineering Manager to lead Platform Engineering, responsible for scalable, reliable infrastructure and faster developer velocity. You will own architecture, drive LLM/RAG production-grade systems, and partner with cross-functional teams in a dynamic, growth-focused environment.

We value technical breadth and strong leadership—you’ll mentor a team of engineers, shape the roadmap, and ensure security/compliance in a fast-paced healthcare-adjacent platform.